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• 11:11, 2 July 2021 User account Akura talk contribs was created
• 10:25, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Times smaller and bigger (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Language Does "\(x\) is 5 times smaller than \(y\)" mean \(x = y/5\)? Does "\(x\) is one time smaller than \(y\)" make sense? Does "\(...")
• 10:17, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page There is no function application symbol (Created page with "While \(\circ\) is often used to represent ''composition'' of functions, it doesn't appear that anyone has invented a symbol for ''application'' of functions. Such a symbol c...")
• 10:09, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Combinations (Created page with "Is it \(_nC_r\) or \(^nC_r\)?<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/335024096947617793 Tweet by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
• 10:08, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page What is a fraction (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1326847522539769856 Twitter thread by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
• 10:06, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Chaining operators and relations (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies <ref>[https://twitter.com/ZenoRogue/status/798923050842324992 Tweet by ZenoRogue]</ref>")
• 10:00, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Ways of writing numbers (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1240294851641516036 Thread started by Christian Lawson-Perfect: " want as many different conventions for writing numbers as you can...")
• 09:45, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Parentheses are overused (Created page with "Category:Conflicting definitions Parentheses are used to represent all sorts of operations and objects, many of which conflict with each other. Greatest common divisor:...")
• 08:56, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Something on the right of a radical (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Handwriting A square root is often shown with a radical symbol: \( \sqrt{x} \). The top line is drawn as wide as it needs to be to cover...")
• 08:51, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Long variable names (Created page with "Mathematicians normally stick to single-letter variable names. But when they don't, it can be hard to tell if there's a missing multiplication symbol or not. Some people...")
• 08:35, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:References (Created page with "This category collects pages that contain references to good places to find material for the wiki.")
• 09:31, 1 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Conflicting definitions (Created page with "This category is for definitions of terms or mathematical objects that don't have a single universally recognised meaning.")
• 23:36, 30 June 2021 Edgartj talk contribs created page Modulus (Created page with "The word '''modulus''' is used in different areas of mathematics with no apparent reason for the name or naming convention connection (that I can tell). For instance, in eleme...")
• 23:26, 30 June 2021 User account Edgartj talk contribs was created
• 19:56, 30 June 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page MathML Intent (offer MathML Intent draft list as a seed for curating/editorializing ambiguity pages)
• 19:45, 30 June 2021 User account Dginev talk contribs was created
• 18:02, 30 June 2021 David Eppstein talk contribs created page Big O notation (New article)
• 17:43, 30 June 2021 User account David Eppstein talk contribs was created
• 17:18, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Positive-and-Negative (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies In many countries, 0 is neither positive nor negative. In France, it is both.")
• 17:13, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Division (Created page with "In some countries, the symbol you don't use for division if you're over about 13 years old is ":". In others, the symbol you don't use for division if you're over about 13 yea...")
• 16:47, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Whole numbers (Created page with ""Whole numbers" are often referred to without being defined, since many people think everyone knows what they are. However, there are at least three things people mean by the...")
• 16:33, 30 June 2021 User account Adam Atkinson talk contribs was created
• 14:37, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page File talk:Xi bar over Xi .jpg (Created page with "This, or some variation of it, should be this wiki's logo - ~~~~")
• 14:12, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template talk:Userbox (Created page with "Looks like [ParserFunctions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions] needs to be installed for stuff like this to work. Until then it looks like the one on ...")
• 14:11, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page User:Mscroggs (Created page with "{{Userbox|name=Matthew Scroggs|twitter=mscroggs|website=[https://mscroggs.co.uk <span style='color:#2EA3D0'>mscroggs</span><span style='color:#FFA366'>.co.uk</span>]}} Hello...")
• 14:09, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template:Userbox (Created page with "<includeonly>{| style="float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 269px; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;" |- style="text-align:cent...")
• 14:09, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template:InfoboxAddrow (Created page with "|- | style="font-weight: bold" | {{{rowlabel}}} |")
• 13:33, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page LaTeX (Redirected page to LaTeΧ) Tag: New redirect
• 13:32, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page LaTeΧ (Created page with "The widely used mathematical typesetting language LaTeΧ is written using a capital Greek letter chi as its final letter. In many typefaces, this is indistinguishable from a c...")
• 13:28, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Natural numbers (Created page with "The set of natural numbers, usually written \(\mathbb{N}\), sometimes includes 0 and sometimes doesn't include 0. Category:Inconsistencies")
• 13:26, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Matrix indices (Created page with "It's common to write the entries of a matrix \(A\) as \(a_{ij}\) without a comma: \(A = \left(\begin{array}{cccc} a_{11}&a_{12}&\dots&a_{1n}\\ a_{21}&a_{22}&\dots&a_{nn}\\ \v...")
• 13:14, 30 June 2021 User account Mscroggs talk contribs was created
• 13:08, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs uploaded File:Xi bar over Xi .jpg
• 13:08, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page File:Xi bar over Xi .jpg
• 12:52, 30 June 2021 ColinBeveridge talk contribs created page Mixed fractions (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies Adjacency means different things depending on the context: * \( 2x \) means \( 2 \times x\). * \( 2 \frac{2}{3} \) means \( 2 + \frac{2}{3}\)....")
• 12:40, 30 June 2021 ColinBeveridge talk contribs created page Stacked fractions (Created page with "A fraction written on multiple levels is often ambiguous, especially when handwritten. For example, \(\frac{10}{\frac{2}{5}}\) and \(\frac{\frac{10}{2}}{5}\) result in 25 and...")
• 12:09, 30 June 2021 User account ColinBeveridge talk contribs was created
• 11:59, 30 June 2021 User account Csangwin talk contribs was created
• 10:47, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Unpleasantness (Created page with "This category collects conventions that offend someone's sensibilities.")
• 10:40, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page References (Created page with "[http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/cajorinot.pdf A History of Mathematical Notations] by Florian Cajori. Jeff Miller maintains some pages on the earliest known uses of [h...")
• 10:39, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Use of different typefaces to convey meaning (Created page with "Category:Unpleasantness Mathematicians love using a different font, or style, to get a semantically different symbol, instead of using diacritics or a different letter en...")
• 10:30, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page User:Christian Lawson-Perfect (Created page with "I'm the creator of this site! For more about me, see my homepage: [https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/ somethingorotherwhatever.com]")
• 10:24, 30 June 2021 User account Tester talk contribs was created
• 10:21, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Powers of trigonometric functions (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Inconsistencies Category:Unpleasantness When writing a power of a trigonometric function, it's common to write the power as a supers...")
• 10:05, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Ambiguities (Created page with "This category collects notations which can be reasonably interpreted in more than one way.")
• 10:03, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Inconsistencies (Created page with "This category collects conventions in notation that are inconsistent with each other.")
• 10:01, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Unary division (Created page with "[[Category::Inconsistencies]] A minus sign with nothing on the left represents negation of whatever's on the right. Why isn't there a unary division symbol? \[ \div x = \fr...")
• 09:57, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Order of operations (Created page with "There are quite a few mnemonics for the order of operations. A common one in the UK is BODMAS: * Brackets * Orders * Division * Multiplication * Addition * Subtraction Elsew...")
• 09:54, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Missing multiplication symbol (Created page with "It's common to omit a multiplication symbol: \(ab = a \times b\) But sometimes it's not as clear: \( a(b+1) = a \times (b+1) ? \)")
• 09:26, 30 June 2021 MediaWiki default talk contribs created page Main Page